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Tag Archives: Samsara
IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW
If You Think You Know If you think you know, it’s just a concept. Knowing about something is not knowing; it’s just an idea. Samsara/human life is a vicious cycle of confusion compounded by further confusion. It’s the trap in which we humans exist, dependent on … Continue reading
GLITCH IN THE MATRIX
Glitch In The Matrix ‘Glitch in the matrix’ is a phrase first coined in the 1999 film, The Matrix, which posited the idea that humanity is living in a giant computer simulation. ‘Matrix Theory’ is based on the idea that the … Continue reading
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OUR THOUGHTS ARE SAMSARA
Our Thoughts Are Samsara Samsara: a Sanskrit word for the vicious cycle of existence, in which we chase our tails to find happiness. All our thoughts are an expression of Samsara. To understand Samsara, we first have to see that … Continue reading
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Tagged chasing our tails, CONSCIOUSNESS, Meditation, memories, nirvana, Samsara, thoughts, we are free, we see
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PROVOKING THOUGHTS
Provoking Thoughts Provoking thoughts, and cutting through them in an instant. If we want to know the truth, we have to drop what we think is the truth – our normal. Thinking we know the truth = a belief, and … Continue reading
DOES THE PAST EXIST NOW?
Does The Past Exist Now? Yes – through our karma. ‘Karma’ is a Sanskrit word for the residue of past actions lodged in our mind that creates our habitual re-enactments such as, “There ‘I’ go again”. This is why most … Continue reading
CHOOSING THE FACTS WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR
Choosing The Facts We Would Like To Hear 😀 Choosing the facts we would like to hear is the perfect example of going round in circles. In Sanskrit, it is called ‘Samsara’, the vicious cycle of existence. We spend our … Continue reading
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Tagged Happiness, OUR TRUE NATURE, pure consciousness, relief from suffering, Samsara
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ILLUMINATI MENTALITY = SAMSARIC GODS
Illuminati Mentality = Samsaric Gods Become an expert in this and that, and miss the reality. Illuminati: people claiming to possess special enlightenment or knowledge. In modern terms, this refers to those who, over millennia, have claimed superiority, believing they’re born to lead. This … Continue reading
ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS
Advice for Beginners Advice for beginners and advanced alike. Realisation can only come about when we truly value instruction. Advice for Beginners by Künkhyen Jamgön Mipham Rinpoché All activities within saṃsāra are pointless and hollow— Unreliable and fleeting, like lightning’s streaking … Continue reading
BEING CREEPY :D
Being Creepy 😀 Both evil-Samsara and enlightened-Nirvana take one step at a time, so we don’t notice what is creeping up on us. When we believe, we are not knowing. When we know, we no longer have to believe. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged creep into the light, creeping darkness, creepy, enlighened, evil, nirvana, Samsara
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CONSPIRACY
Conspiracy Is there a truth hidden from us in plain sight? Yes. Who is in on it? Everyone! The last thing anyone wants to look at is themselves – their true reality – because of a creation of a personal … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy, finding fault, Mara, our essence, our true reality, plain sight, power, Pure Consciousness., Samsara, the truth
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CONFLICT CREATES CONTEST
Conflict Creates Contest We may judge things differently, but the seeing is the same. In reality there is no conflict, no incompatibility, no contest. When we burst the illusory bubble of samsara – which is all about me – we … Continue reading
IS RIGPA ANARCHY?
Is Rigpa Anarchy? Rigpa is the absolute freedom of the individual. Anarchy is the absolute freedom of the individual. The difference is in the application; Rigpa is knowing one’s true nature, whereas ma-rigpa is not knowing one’s true nature. If we … Continue reading
THE REALITY and THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
The Reality and The Merry-Go-Round We desire to be enlightened, and/or we are averse to suffering. These two emotions – desire and aversion – derive from ignorance; ignorance of our true reality, which is pure consciousness, pure being. These emotions … Continue reading
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Tagged DESIRE AND AVERSION., Samsara, The Reality and The Merry-Go-Round.
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LIBERATION FROM DEPENDENCY
Liberation from Dependency To be able to ‘read between the lines’ means to perceive or deduce a meaning that is hidden or implied rather than being openly stated. ‘Independent’ is being free from outer control, not subject to another’s authority, and capable of thinking or acting for oneself. In other words, genuine liberation. We are … Continue reading
MASTERY OVER PERCEPTION
Mastery Over Perception Mastery over perception means that we cease to react to appearances. Karma is therefore no longer reinforced, purifying samsara. And the lighter … and lighter … we feel! You can see where this is going! 😀 Karma: … Continue reading
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Tagged ENLIGHTENMENT, feeling lighter, influences on our behaviour, KARMA, karmic influences, Samsara
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HOW AM I EMPTINESS?
How Am I Emptiness? How is everything emptiness? Emptiness doesn’t mean having no qualities, for the reason that awareness simply has to be present to acknowledge emptiness. It’s like this. Before a thing is identified as a thing, and we … Continue reading
I AM A MILLION TRAUMAS
I Am A Million Traumas Trauma: from Greek, literally ‘wound’. We are all mentally wounded. We are cloaked in layer upon layer of traumas – coarse and subtle traumas. We all know what anger, pride, desire, jealousy, hatred, fear etc … Continue reading
HOW LONG WILL ENLIGHTENMENT TAKE?
How Long Will Enlightenment Take? As long as thoughts, emotions and reactions take over our minds, distracting and controlling us. Be aware that, at any moment, we can turn this on its head, by simply being enlightened to the fact … Continue reading
PHRASEOLOGY, NOMENCLATURE, PARLANCE, TERMINOLOGIES
Phraseology, Nomenclature, Parlance, Terminologies can go over our heads and make us feel that we will never understand. 😀 😀 😀 ‘The indistinguishability of samsara and nirvana’…? ‘Thought and dharmakaya are a unity’…? It’s like this: Water and wetness are … Continue reading
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Tagged Dharmakaya, inseparability, nirvana, Samsara, spiritual terminology
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GOLD IN THE MUD
Gold In The Mud Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche “Although buddha nature is present in everyone, we fail to recognise it. This ignorance is the main cause for wandering in samsara. Due to the ignorance of not knowing their own nature, sentient … Continue reading
REGRET
Regret Something we all experience, all the time 🙂 Regret: sadness, disappointment, dismay, dejection, sorrow, guilt. The opposite to regret is happiness. So, we are talking about unhappiness = suffering. Regret is recognising that we are suffering, which is the … Continue reading
WHAT A JOKE.
What a joke. As long as we believe Samsara to be real,is as long as we will suffer.Samsara is the temporary goings-onin the reflections of a muddy mind. The more we believe,the more the mud clings. The joke:there is no … Continue reading
SOLVING PROBLEMS
Solving problems. If you are having a problem with someone, remember, it is you who is having the problem. People are the way they are because that’s the way they are. In samsara there will always be irritations: irritations is … Continue reading
OUR BELIEFS SENTENCE US
Our beliefs sentence us. Our beliefs sentence us to see the world in a certain way, and that in turn has an effect on us. This is the law of interdependence: situations are created by a series of links comprising … Continue reading
SAMSARA WITHIN SAMSARA
Samsara within Samsara. Part one. Samsara is defined as the repetitive cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that arises from ordinary beings mistakenly grasping and fixating on a self, and experiences, as real. Samsara arises out of our ignorance of … Continue reading
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